| Here's where you can introduce yourself! You can include why you are being/trying to be more healthy or how long it's been since the lifestyle change. Anything really. It's up to you. I'm Mai. I've had ups and downs with workingout/dieting but I'm really trying to just maintain where I am now. My weakness really is dieting, but mainly with sweets and booze lol. When I workout, I mainly do cardio, with some light weight training. I'd like to get more into interval training. I also do a good bit of Group Exercise classes like Zumba. Took a boxing course last spring. My goal is to gradually be able to run a 5 K consistently, or at least continue increasing my endurance. Nice to meet you all! |
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MaiTai said: My weakness really is dieting, but mainly with sweets and booze lol. Hi, Mai. I'm experimenting with intermittent fasting. I only eat one meal per day, and that forces me to try to choose a healthy diet. I used to eat real chocolate with none of that soy lecithin garbage, but I don't even have room for that anymore. Supercolin said: Hello I'm Colin, I really never worked out much and I only started a few months ago I enjoy swimming and riding bikes. Hi, Colin. I heard that swimming is a great exercise, because it forces you to work so many of your muscles at the same time. I know how to swim, but I just don't like the water. Personal preference. Watch out for the bike riding. Sitting on a narrow seat can impair your fertility. I prefer not to sit down, but if I had to ride a bike, then I would get one of those recumbent bicycles with a basket on it for cargo. As for myself, my name is Tim. I live in Texas, but I don't want to identify myself completely, because I think I would lose my job. It's hard to believe, but I do have enemies. When I'm not working, I jog and lift every day, but I'm not a power lifter. I just get my reps in like it's a religion. I don't do much spot training. I mainly hit the major muscle groups. |
| <--- Names right there, though I prefer Astros or a version of it. I've been attempting to make my diet more healthy since about two years ago when I took a look at my health. Just recently put together a workout routine to follow that I found appealing. My biggest problem with working out is finding the right routine for my goals. Which while not being too hard to achieve they are a bit specific. In a general sense I just want to be healthy. Though I want to be able to depend on my body and it's strength if the time comes for it. I don't want to suffer for my own weakness later on and possibly die from it. So being able to run a mile without much effort or climbing a thirty foot rope without being winded are goals I have in mind at the moment. If the chance arises later in life I might take up rock climbing. My workout is mainly built on body-weight exercises and cardio. My goal with it is to build functional endurance strength. I have no interest in lifting competitions or the sort, just being able to move and support my own body-weight relatively easily. |
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| Welcome Tim! My nutritionist said that I should make sure I eat 3 meals a day but normally I do 1 or 2 so I don't think that's the answer for me lol. I have done some cleanses though but I've heard good and bad about those. Thanks for helping out with the club Stros! |
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| Hey I'm Mark from Australia. I've been hitting the gym for 3 years now, currently cutting hard and taking my diet seriously for the first time instead of just eating whatever and working hard to maintain weight. I gym 7 times a week, with 2 pure cardio sessions. I lift heavy then watch an episode or two of anime on the treadmill to warm down and burn a few more calories and keep the fitness up. For pure cardio I do bit of HIIT (high intensity interval training) followed up with my usual anime treadmill watching crap. I've played sports my whole life, mainly baseball, tennis and various forms of martials. |
| Welcome Mark! I've done some HIIT with the group exercise program at my university. It's a good program! I generally listen to music when working out, but I wonder how I'd like it watching anime. |
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| Thanks. MaiTai said: I generally listen to music when working out, but I wonder how I'd like it watching anime. I drop music for my weight training, but cardio bores me with just music. With watching anime on the treadmill screen, it get's my mind off how long I've been walking/running for since each ep is roughly 24mins, which is a solid amount of calories. That being said if I'm outdoors and not on a treadmill I usually just use music, since my areas got pretty beautiful scenery. |
| Also HIIT would be great for you MaiTai since your goal is to run 5km consistency. Get the heart rate beating crazy, training your lungs to intake air more consistently and easier. Throw a HIIT or two in a week since it's pretty taxing on the body. |
| I typically run on the track, but I may throw in a curveball and do the treadmill with anime just to see how I like it. I can take HIIT classes for free, but was considering doing a specialty course this semester for $30, if I do that then I probably won't do HIIT too. We'll see. |
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MaiTai said: Thanks for helping out with the club Stros! Np, glad to help. |
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Objective said: I lift heavy then watch an episode or two of anime on the treadmill to warm down and burn a few more calories and keep the fitness up. For pure cardio I do bit of HIIT (high intensity interval training) followed up with my usual anime treadmill watching crap. Hi, Mark. Oh...my...god! I can't believe I never thought of watching anime on the treadmill. How do you do it? The treadmills here are packed in like sardines, so I know that I would get some stares, but I don't care. I'm lining up entire seasons right now. |
| Hey guys, new man on the club. I'm Rakin, you can call me Rafa (short for Rafael) and I'm 19. I was very big in bodybuilding for a while, peaking at 93kg, 7% bf at 185 cm (205 pounds, 6'1). I did a lot of training when I was younger to condition myself since I had to do a lot of running and mountain climbing, and recently due to injures and depression I kinda let myself go. I was really big into supplements, workout routines and nutrition, to the point where I went to college for it (eventually changing into Business Economics). Today I still do mainly weightlifting, create my own workouts and etc. Just trying to get my mindset back into workout to get motivated to get strong and lean again so I can compete in a competition I had to post-pone. Looking forward to chatting with you all! |
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Tim_ said: i Hi, Mark. Oh...my...god! I can't believe I never thought of watching anime on the treadmill. How do you do it? The treadmills here are packed in like sardines, so I know that I would get some stares, but I don't care. I'm lining up entire seasons right now. I just chuck mp4 files on my iphone and lay it down cause our treadmill screens are pretty high up and theres a spot that fits perfectly without giving me a neck hunch, alot of treadmills now adays have a usb port aswell. Aww dude my gyms ALWAYS packed and I used to PT at this gym. So people talk to me and shit and work in. So when I'm on the treadmill and they come over to talk and see what I'm watching (which is cardcaptor sakura atm, imagine that) their always drop the "what the fuck are you watching" line. Which I could care less what others think of me lol. |
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Rakin said: I was really big into supplements, workout routines and nutrition, to the point where I went to college for it (eventually changing into Business Economics). Today I still do mainly weightlifting, create my own workouts and etc. Just trying to get my mindset back into workout to get motivated to get strong and lean again so I can compete in a competition I had to post-pone. Looking forward to chatting with you all! Hi, Rafa. What are your favorite supplements, and what competition did you postpone? Objective said: I just chuck mp4 files on my iphone and lay it down cause our treadmill screens are pretty high up and theres a spot that fits perfectly without giving me a neck hunch, alot of treadmills now adays have a usb port aswell. Aww dude my gyms ALWAYS packed and I used to PT at this gym. So people talk to me and shit and work in. So when I'm on the treadmill and they come over to talk and see what I'm watching (which is cardcaptor sakura atm, imagine that) their always drop the "what the fuck are you watching" line. Which I could care less what others think of me lol. Damn, call me a Luddite, but I don't want to get started with smartphones, and the treadmills at my gym don't even have screens, much less USB ports. I once told a guy that I watch anime, and he asked me if it was kiddie porn. I would play Cardcaptor Sakura just for the lulz. Stalker-tan said: My previous experience involves karate, kendo, biking and around 8 months at the gym. Hi, Sebastian. I used to practice kendo and iaido, but I stopped because I wore out my shoulder. It got so painful that I had trouble lifting my sword. I wasn't lifting weights at the time, so I probably should have been working out my shoulders. Do you know of any exercises that kendo players do to protect themselves? |
Tim_ said: Damn, call me a Luddite, but I don't want to get started with smartphones, and the treadmills at my gym don't even have screens, much less USB ports. I once told a guy that I watch anime, and he asked me if it was kiddie porn. I would play Cardcaptor Sakura just for the lulz. Not to sound like a dick, but would you use an ipod touch? Cause I was using that for awhile as well, I'm not an apple fanboy btw. |
Stalker-tan said: Well, the most important thing was to stretch both before and after exercising. I never did any stretching, Sebastian, so it's no wonder that I had such problems. Objective said: Cause I was using that for awhile as well, I'm not an apple fanboy btw. Does the iPod touch allow you to play any file, Mark, or do you have to buy the content from iTunes? I want the freedom to copy the file and play it without any DRM restrictions. |
Tim_ said: Objective said: Cause I was using that for awhile as well, I'm not an apple fanboy btw. Does the iPod touch allow you to play any file, Mark, or do you have to buy the content from iTunes? I want the freedom to just copy the file and play it without any DRM restrictions. It plays mp4 files, idk if you can just convert your files to mp4 and it'll play though. I'm using a fair few deadfish hardsubs atm so it works fine. |
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Stalker-tan said: Well, the most important thing was to stretch both before and after exercising. It takes quite a strain naturally, since it's repetetive movements done over and over again (sometimes we did something called a "swing circle", sounds wrong translated but anyhow we swinged our shinai in unison for 100 up to 800 times). It was one of the side reasons to why I quit, but the times were too inflexible and that was my major reason. I think Iaido and Kendo should both be complemented by reverse movement exercises (pulling vs pushing, front vs back etc.) so that you don't get an uneven muscle structure. That, and ergonomic exercises for wrists and feet. I'm not too experienced in Kendo, I only did it for about half a year, but that's my experience. I find that stretching after a weightlifting workout can be very harmful though. Straining torn muscle fibers is a no no |
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| It could have been lost in translation, Rafa. I don't do it, but I think it's standard to follow a warmup, stretch, exertion, and cool down cycle. |
| I'd second that stretching after a workout can be harmful. I'd recommend just keep the muscle group you trained warm with a jumper or track pants post workout and possibly warm down for 10 minutes on a treadmill. |
| I agree with the martial arts stretching 100% as well though! Forgot to stretch before and after MMA (more like neglected) and my back and knee problems from it proved to be a pain in the ass. Not to mention flexibility! |
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Tim_ said: Can you copy the files over a plain USB connection? Yeah, well with the USB apple cables. |
| Do you recommend a particular generation of the iPod touch, Mark? |
| I use the fourth gen personally and never had another generation of ipod. |
| I just remembered that there is an Apple store at my local shopping mall. I will test drive an iPod touch on my next visit. Thank you, Mark. |
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| My name's SuperHands, I have super hands. I want to have naisu bodi like my idol, Bruce Lee. I've always been a slim yet very sporty individual, however exercising in order to look good is not my motivation, nor would I say I'm doing it because I desire or am required to become more healthy, as I'm already very healthy. Exercise, for me, is a result of my urge to challenge myself, mentally and physically, as well as an outlet for my abundance of energy; the physique and health benefits are just a bonus. Life story impending. That’s wassup. |
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| Another Bruce Lee fan? :D Not sure if you remember seeing me or not Super, though I couldn't forget that avatar gif =P. Welcome ^.^. |
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| Hi, SuperHands. Like you, I came close to injuring my leg, except for me it is my hamstring. Since you already pulled your quadricep, it may be too late, but I'm trying to protect my hamstring by doing squats. I may switch to exercises that isolate the hamstring. As for Bruce Lee, I think he should have married a Chinese woman. |
Astros477 said: Another Bruce Lee fan? :D Not sure if you remember seeing me or not Super, though I couldn't forget that avatar gif =P. Welcome ^.^. YO. Yeah, I know you, Asstros. Who else is a Bruce Lee fan? Tim_ said: Hi, SuperHands. Like you, I came close to injuring my leg, except for me it is my hamstring. Since you already pulled your quadricep, it may be too late, but I'm trying to protect my hamstring by doing squats. I may switch to exercises that isolate the hamstring. As for Bruce Lee, I think he should have married a Chinese woman. lol why a Chinese woman? And injuries are a bitch, how'd you almost do yours? I got mine from playing football for 4 hours straight and then trying to sprint the next day. |
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Sonic0 said: Hi, I'm Jacob of the United States. As of right now I'm running 5-6 times a week for cross country. I'm a decent runner; to give some idea I can run a 5:59 mile and can run at an easy pace for somewhere near an hour. I try to lift as much as possible because I need the strength for the upcoming wrestling season, but I don't have a gym membership so I have to pay every time I go. My problems would be that I don't eat unhealthy often, but when I do I eat WAY too much. My goal right now is to run a sub 20 minute 5k by the end of the season. Nice to meet you all! Welcome to the club man, nice to meet ya. How long you been wrestling for? |
SuperHands said: lol why a Chinese woman? And injuries are a bitch, how'd you almost do yours? I got mine from playing football for 4 hours straight and then trying to sprint the next day. Wasn't Bruce Lee a Chinese man? I was jogging every day, and I would add a mile here and there just for kicks, but I must have overdone it. Now, I'm stuck walking, and I'm doing squats and leg curls to try and build up my strength. My leg was starting to feel better, but I ran across a street because of heavy traffic, and I could feel the pain radiate down my hamstring to my calf. Sonic0 said: I try to lift as much as possible because I need the strength for the upcoming wrestling season, but I don't have a gym membership so I have to pay every time I go. Hi, Jacob. Watch out for a promotion at your local gym. I used to not have a gym membership, because I thought their prices were too high, but then they offered a $10/month special. It was supposed to be temporary, but I seem to have somehow gotten it converted to a life membership. Awesome! The other people at my gym are paying $50/month or more, so let's just keep this between us. |
Sonic0 said: Awesome bro, best of luck.Objective said: Welcome to the club man, nice to meet ya. How long you been wrestling for? Only two years. This is gonna be my first season in high school so I'm excited for that. |
| Hey everyone, my name is Amrel. I started working out early this year. The reason why I started working out was because I was angry and depressed and I needed a positive outlet. Now I work out because it's fun and I use it as an excuse to eat whatever I want xD I look forward to meeting you all! |
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| Hi, Amrel. I'm glad that you're feeling better. Be careful when it comes to eating whatever you want. Those habits may catch up with you one day. I used to have a similar attitude, but then I stopped working out, and my body went to hell before I knew what happened. Since then, I changed my whole mindset. Now, I'm a machine for life. |
| It's just when I see that Nutty Bar I can't help myself lol |
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| Hello everyone. Name is Kira. Recently started working out for an number of reasons. 1. Self Esteam is non-exstint. 2. I want to wear my old high school pants 3. Mirrors are not my friend 4. I want to get some abs on me. (not body building kind of abs) So hopefully I can get some good advice and tips on how to work out. |
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| Welcome to the club Kira! If you need any help whatsoever with a dieting plan, workout regime or general motivation don't be afraid to ask! Personally I'd be happy to help. Here's a few initial to keep in mind if your in the mood to read a wall of text. |
| Hi, Kira. Instead of trying to base your self-esteem on the way you look, maybe you could consider being proud of who you are and where you came from. I exercise to preserve my health into my old age, so I can continue my work as long as possible, be it taking care of my immediate family or my extended kin through political aspirations. I certainly don't care what most people think of my appearance. Having said that, I posted some tips in the [Advice Lounge], but I'll add something new here. After I read a book called Wheat Belly by Dr. William Davis, I eliminated all cereals like wheat and oats from my diet. Dr. Davis writes in his book that genetically modified wheat is used today, so it causes inflammation and other ill effects in your body. If you do try to stop eating stuff like bread and pasta, then be prepared to experience the symptoms of withdrawal. People have compared it to the cessation of an addictive drug. |
| Hi! Uhhh I'm 15 and I'm somewhat new to weightlifting. I started learning how to weight lift from professionals when I was like 12 but I got caught up with track and cross country (both demanded a lot of my time) and it wasn't until this year (sophmore) they provided a weight lifting class, so now I have time to weight lift agian (Yeaay!) I've tried a lot of different sports in the past but because I used to do cross country I rarely had the time to (but i'm starting to have time to do them) I've tried Bouldering, Snowboarding, and MMA in the past (Trying to start kickboxing now) The reason I stopped cross country was because my freshmen year I was 2nd fastest of my class and participated in some varsity races, which caused my coach to have high expectations from me, but at the time I was also dealing with harsh internal conflicts and it affected my grades so I had to let go of it. I find bodybuilding actually really fascinating. It's a sport, science, and art. I actually don't know why I like weight lifting so much, but a small reason is because i'm amazingly skinny with a crazy metabolism which causes me to never gain weight... (I've tried calorie counting and if it will fit your macros and all that stuff but overtime it kinda just... stopped lol.) My goal is to basically get bigger lol (Not the professional bodybuilding large just bigger) but yeah I find this stuff really cool and hope to learn some cool things. |
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